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Breck’s Perennial Flower Seeds 
Gcxillardia • Blanket Flower 
Wheel-shaped, yellow and red flowers 
with dark brown centers. Excellent for 
cutting and garden decoration. Plants 2 to 
3 feet high. 
7830 Breck’s Exhibition Hybrids. Large, 
handsome flowers of clear yellow or 
brilliant crimson, edged and banded with 
gold. Pkts. 15c and 35c: 
7832 Burgundy. Exceedingly beautiful 
strain with large, deep, dark scarlet 
flowers. Pkt. 35c. 
7838 Grandiflora, Dazzler. Vivid crim¬ 
son with broad yellow margin. Pkt. 25c. 
7840 Portola Hybrids. Clear crimson 
flowers, feather-edged yellow. Pkt. 25c. 
Grasses 
Ornamental grasses make handsome 
clumps, effective as lawn specimens and 
useful as backgrounds in a hardy border. 
The plumed flowering sprays may be dried 
for indoor decoration. 
7865 Arundo Donax. Great Reed. Grows 
12 feet high, with drooping foliage and 
enormous plumes. Prefers a deep sandy 
loam. Pkt. 10c. 
7867 Erianthus Ravennae. Plume Grass. 
Resembles the annual Pampas Grass, 
making feathery, silvery spikes 8 feet 
high. Pkt. 10c. 
7869 Eulalia japonica variegata. Good 
clumps 5 feet high, with long, narrow, 
green leaves striped white. Pkt. 15c. 
Gypsophila 
Echinacea • Conefl ower 
7788 Purpurea. Bushy plant with 3- 
foot stems, topped by huge, dull 
rose-pink daisies with high, dark, 
bronzy centers from July until frost. 
Fine for cutting and landscape dec¬ 
oration. Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
Echinops • Globe Thistle 
7792 Ritro. Coarse, spiny foliage, with 
globular heads of steel-blue flowers 
in July and August on 3-foot stems. 
Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
Edelweiss 
7795 Gnaphalium Leontopodium. 
This famous rock-garden plant is 
from the Swiss Alps. Starry white 
flowers surrounded by silvery-gray 
woolly foliage. Height 6 inches. Pkt. 
25c. 
Eryngium • Sea Holly 
Ornamental border plants with hand¬ 
some, spiny foliage and thistle-like 
flowers which may be dried for Winter 
bouquets. Height 2 to 3 feet. 
7812 Amethystinum. Deep blue; Pkts. 
25c and 60c. 
7814 Giganteum. Very handsome, pale 
blue flowers. Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
Eupatorium • Snakeroot 
7818 Fraseri. Rough-leaved] border plant 
for shady places with heads of frizzly 
white flowers. 3 to 4 feet high. Pkts. 10c 
and 25c. 
Gentiana • Gentian 
7825 Acaulis. A precious plant of dwarf 
habit, with immense, starry trumpets of 
gorgeous deep blue. Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
Geranium 
7827 Sanguineum. An attractive, loosely 
branching plant 18 inches high, with 
fine-cut foliage and bright, rosy purple 
flowers. Pkts. 25c and 60c. 
Gypsophila • Baby’s Breath 
Tall varieties are excellent border 
plants with high value as cut-flowers. 
The dwarf varieties are excellent in the 
rock-garden. 
7882 Paniculata. Globular bushes 2 
to 3 feet high, with masses of tiny, 
misty flowers and foliage. Pkts. 10c 
and 25c. 
7884 Paniculata fl.-pl. This seed pro¬ 
duces at least 70 per cent double 
flowers which are whiter and larger 
than those of the single type. Pkts. 
25c and 60c. 
7885 Pacifica. A later-flowering va¬ 
riety than Paniculata. The small 
pink blossoms are carried gracefully 
on spreading panicles. Height 3 feet. 
Pkt. 25c. 
7886 Repens. A dense, creeping plant, 
producing clouds of dainty pinkish 
white flowers. Height 6 inches. Pkts. 
15c and 35c. 
7888 Repens rosea. Pink. Pkt. 25c. 
Geum, Mrs. Bradshaw 
Gaillardia, Dazzler 
Geum 
Dwarf border plants with 18- 
inch sprays of charming flowers 
rising from a rosette of rough, 
handsomely designed foliage. 
Blooms freely from May to 
October. 
7860 Lady Stratheden. Flow¬ 
ers double, yellow. Pkts. 15c 
and 35c. 
7861 Mrs. Bradshaw. Double; 
brightest scarlet. Very popu¬ 
lar. Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
7863 Orange Queen. Double; 
glowing orange-scarlet. Pkt. 
25c. 
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